Comments on: No I am not going to accept your pathetic impersonal invitation on LinkedIn. http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/ Where Talent Strategies + Social Media Intersect Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Boren http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Scott Boren Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:24:50 +0000 http://radiantveracity.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-586 Yea, Stephanie. This seems so simple but most don't get it. Would you walk up to someone you know / know of and say Hi I want to be your friend? NO. You would say Hi, we met last week at the ABC conference you spoke at. One of the best pieces of advice I have gotten from a trusted friend about social media is treat them like they are standing in front of you. Yea, Stephanie. This seems so simple but most don’t get it. Would you walk up to someone you know / know of and say Hi I want to be your friend? NO. You would say Hi, we met last week at the ABC conference you spoke at. One of the best pieces of advice I have gotten from a trusted friend about social media is treat them like they are standing in front of you.

]]> By: Mario Sundar http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Mario Sundar Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:47:27 +0000 http://radiantveracity.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-585 Hi Stephanie, This is Mario from LinkedIn. It's a known bug that will be fixed shortly and users should be back to personalizing their invites very soon. Hope that helps. Best, Mario. http://twitter.com/linkedin Hi Stephanie,

This is Mario from LinkedIn. It’s a known bug that will be fixed shortly and users should be back to personalizing their invites very soon.

Hope that helps. Best, Mario.
http://twitter.com/linkedin

]]> By: Sam Diener http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Sam Diener Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:11 +0000 http://radiantveracity.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-584 Thank you for bringing out the infamous "How to Win Friend's and Influence People." Great advice.... those generic invites normally get "archived" now for me because they come so often. Um. I'd like to add you to my network on linked-in. Thank you for bringing out the infamous “How to Win Friend’s and Influence People.” Great advice…. those generic invites normally get “archived” now for me because they come so often.

Um. I’d like to add you to my network on linked-in.

]]> By: Stephanie A. Lloyd http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-583 Stephanie A. Lloyd Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:41:55 +0000 http://radiantveracity.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-583 Hi Marguerite, Thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts. What you are doing is precisely what I'm writing a new blog post about as we speak! I think many (most?) of us are feeling at least somewhat conflicted as to how we'll react to LinkedIn's latest blunder. Blunder is probably not a strong enough word but I'll save the rest for my blog post. :-) Stephanie Hi Marguerite,

Thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts.

What you are doing is precisely what I’m writing a new blog post about as we speak!

I think many (most?) of us are feeling at least somewhat conflicted as to how we’ll react to LinkedIn’s latest blunder. Blunder is probably not a strong enough word but I’ll save the rest for my blog post. :-)

Stephanie

]]> By: Marguerite Granat http://www.radiantveracity.com/2009/05/no-i-will-not-accept-your-lazy-linkedin-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Marguerite Granat Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:32:19 +0000 http://radiantveracity.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-582 Stephanie, I get your point. LinkedIn is making it tough to do exactly what you suggest in this post. I'm not sure what is motivating them to take the personalization away but it definitely makes it impersonal. Today I sent an invitation to someone and I'lll use the DM feature from Twitter to let them know. I guess this will drive me away from LinkedIn to other SM sites in order to personalize my message or maybe find other options for professional networking. Thanks again for your insightful posts!!! Marguerite Stephanie, I get your point. LinkedIn is making it tough to do exactly what you suggest in this post. I’m not sure what is motivating them to take the personalization away but it definitely makes it impersonal. Today I sent an invitation to someone and I’lll use the DM feature from Twitter to let them know. I guess this will drive me away from LinkedIn to other SM sites in order to personalize my message or maybe find other options for professional networking. Thanks again for your insightful posts!!!
Marguerite

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